.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 212 151
Rank change year-on-year -144 -61 -41
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 305 891 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.71% 1.30% 2.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.37% 6.75% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 276 676 1,099
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,625 £88,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,985 13,207 15,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.26% 19.32% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,556 8,787 12,265
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,575 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £64,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -3.76% +2.31%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET Core as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +21 143 £77,500 -3.13% 107
North of England -83 73 £60,000 +4.35% 84
North West -28 48 £60,000 - 45
South West +31 29 £50,000 -13.79% 27
South East -106 28 £57,500 +4.55% 89
Yorkshire -59 17 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Midlands -64 17 £60,000 +20.00% 44
West Midlands -3 12 £60,000 +26.32% 26
East of England -44 10 £50,000 - 32
North East +4 8 £50,000 +2.56% 15
East Midlands -40 5 £60,000 +20.00% 17
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (7.87%) IIS
2 13 (4.26%) CMS
2 13 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.95%) Confluence
4 5 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.64%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.66%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.33%) Eikon
2 1 (0.33%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) RMDS
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (65.57%) Azure
2 100 (32.79%) AWS
3 43 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (11.15%) GitHub
5 32 (10.49%) Serverless
6 26 (8.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (8.52%) SaaS
7 23 (7.54%) Power Platform
8 21 (6.89%) Azure Functions
9 19 (6.23%) Power Automate
10 18 (5.90%) GCP
11 15 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (4.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (3.61%) PowerApps
14 9 (2.95%) Azure App Service
15 7 (2.30%) Azure AKS
16 6 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
17 4 (1.31%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Internet
2 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) HTTP
3 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.33%) MQTT
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (35.08%) SQL Server
2 57 (18.69%) MongoDB
3 52 (17.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 29 (9.51%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (6.89%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.26%) Data Hub
6 13 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.26%) Power BI
6 13 (4.26%) SQL CLR
7 9 (2.95%) MySQL
7 9 (2.95%) Redis
8 8 (2.62%) NonStop SQL
8 8 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.97%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.31%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.66%) Event Store
13 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 45 (14.75%) Git
2 19 (6.23%) JIRA
3 18 (5.90%) GitLab
4 16 (5.25%) Octopus Deploy
5 14 (4.59%) Visual Studio
6 13 (4.26%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.97%) JMeter
7 6 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.64%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.64%) Postman
8 5 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.31%) Moq
9 4 (1.31%) MSTest
9 4 (1.31%) NUnit
9 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.31%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.98%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.98%) Selenium
10 3 (0.98%) Vite
General
1 58 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.03%) Finance
3 27 (8.85%) Retail
4 23 (7.54%) Back Office
5 13 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.28%) Advertising
6 10 (3.28%) Law
6 10 (3.28%) Legal
7 9 (2.95%) Front Office
8 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.30%) Banking
9 6 (1.97%) Automotive
10 5 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.31%) Marketing
12 3 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 205 (67.21%) Developer
2 123 (40.33%) .NET Developer
3 59 (19.34%) Senior
4 46 (15.08%) C# Developer
5 43 (14.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 41 (13.44%) Senior Developer
7 39 (12.79%) Software Engineer
8 38 (12.46%) Lead
9 36 (11.80%) Software Developer
10 28 (9.18%) C# .NET Developer
11 25 (8.20%) Senior .NET Developer
12 21 (6.89%) Lead Developer
13 20 (6.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 19 (6.23%) Senior C# Developer
15 17 (5.57%) Head of Development
16 16 (5.25%) .NET Software Engineer
17 12 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
17 12 (3.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 12 (3.93%) Senior C# .NET Developer
18 11 (3.61%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (100.00%) .NET
2 105 (34.43%) ASP.NET
3 104 (34.10%) .NET Framework
4 101 (33.11%) React
5 95 (31.15%) AngularJS
6 79 (25.90%) Entity Framework
7 76 (24.92%) HTML
8 66 (21.64%) ASP.NET Web API
9 60 (19.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 60 (19.67%) RESTful
10 59 (19.34%) CSS
11 45 (14.75%) Vue
12 41 (13.44%) HTML5
13 38 (12.46%) Node.js
14 31 (10.16%) Blazor
15 30 (9.84%) REST
16 21 (6.89%) CSS3
17 19 (6.23%) LINQ
17 19 (6.23%) Web Services
18 15 (4.92%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.26%) Private Cloud
4 13 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 12 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.28%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.30%) Digital TV
10 5 (1.64%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.64%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.31%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.31%) IoT
11 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.98%) Derivative
12 3 (0.98%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.59%) Windows
2 13 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (56.39%) Agile
2 142 (46.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 118 (38.69%) Microservices
4 109 (35.74%) CI/CD
5 102 (33.44%) DevOps
6 97 (31.80%) Software Engineering
7 79 (25.90%) MVC
8 61 (20.00%) TDD
9 54 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (17.38%) Clean Code
11 47 (15.41%) Mentoring
12 45 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (13.77%) Scrum
14 41 (13.44%) Kanban
15 40 (13.11%) Containerisation
16 33 (10.82%) Fintech
17 32 (10.49%) SDLC
18 31 (10.16%) BDD
19 29 (9.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 29 (9.51%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 272 (89.18%) C#
2 132 (43.28%) SQL
3 118 (38.69%) JavaScript
4 74 (24.26%) TypeScript
5 36 (11.80%) Python
6 8 (2.62%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.30%) Go
7 7 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.64%) Rust
9 4 (1.31%) Java
9 4 (1.31%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.98%) Bicep
10 3 (0.98%) PHP
11 2 (0.66%) C
11 2 (0.66%) XAML
12 1 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) R
12 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (10.16%) Degree
2 17 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.33%) MCSD
6 1 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.56%) QA
2 12 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.97%) WCAG
4 4 (1.31%) GDPR
5 3 (0.98%) CDISC
6 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (22.95%) Docker
2 13 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 29 (9.51%) Terraform
3 2 (0.66%) Ansible
3 2 (0.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 112 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.26%) VMware
3 7 (2.30%) Facebook
3 7 (2.30%) YouTube
4 4 (1.31%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.31%) Google
4 4 (1.31%) Oracle
5 3 (0.98%) Databricks
5 3 (0.98%) New Relic
6 2 (0.66%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.66%) Intapp
6 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.66%) Telerik
6 2 (0.66%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.33%) IONA
7 1 (0.33%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.33%) Reuters
7 1 (0.33%) SAP
7 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow